It has been said America isn't a place, it's an idea. Same can be said for Ukraine, especially as the author said Ukrainian nationalism became inclusive. All of Ukraine voted for independence, including Russian speakers. That is part of the difference between Ukraine and our efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. When Assad was killing his people, the people fighting him were majority Jihadists. We didn't have enough to make a credible partnership. It would not have ended well. And it is these middle east failures that color everyone's view of American help for Ukraine. And Soviet era propaganda was and is effective when people accuse you of being in bed with defense contractors, Putin uses it to accuse us of aggression before and after he invaded Ukraine. You covered everything, Biden slow rolling out weapons, the Budapest memo, speaking of which Putin using nuclear threats to curb our help, the possibility of inaction making war more likely (I am reading "The Spectre of War--International Communism and the Origins of World War II" by J. Haslam. Also I like Cats but I don't like trolls.
Wish you could have asked Yaro why more U.S. sanctions were placed on Russia due to Navalny's death than at the start of the Ukraine "special operation."
It has been said America isn't a place, it's an idea. Same can be said for Ukraine, especially as the author said Ukrainian nationalism became inclusive. All of Ukraine voted for independence, including Russian speakers. That is part of the difference between Ukraine and our efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. When Assad was killing his people, the people fighting him were majority Jihadists. We didn't have enough to make a credible partnership. It would not have ended well. And it is these middle east failures that color everyone's view of American help for Ukraine. And Soviet era propaganda was and is effective when people accuse you of being in bed with defense contractors, Putin uses it to accuse us of aggression before and after he invaded Ukraine. You covered everything, Biden slow rolling out weapons, the Budapest memo, speaking of which Putin using nuclear threats to curb our help, the possibility of inaction making war more likely (I am reading "The Spectre of War--International Communism and the Origins of World War II" by J. Haslam. Also I like Cats but I don't like trolls.
Your claim " What’s at stake for the United States is Putin’s effort to reconstitute a Soviet empire."
Care to provide evidence that Putin wants to reconstitute a Soviet empire? If not, can you please stop making stuff up?
Wish you could have asked Yaro why more U.S. sanctions were placed on Russia due to Navalny's death than at the start of the Ukraine "special operation."